Scrooge's Shadow: The Ghost of Deprivation and Health

• Data
  • Dataset & Challenge
  • Variables selected
• Program
  • Patterns found in 2 Figures
• Communicate
  • Key Concepts
  • Inspiration & Adaption
  • Prototype
  • Storytelling
  • What's Left

NHS Medical Data

• Data Exploration Completed
• Coarse Granularity, not suitable for drawing conclusions
• Serve as a starting point to present certain phenomena and call for possible action
  
  

Challenge

The challenge is to interpret NHS palliative care data, highlighting how health and deprivation disparities affect end-of-life care. Despite data limitations, this project aims to raise awareness through data comics, questioning how deprivation impacts health choices and locations of passing, especially in palliative scenarios.

• Disease Types: Cancer, Cardiovascular, Respiratory, Dementia
• Deprivation Levels: 1 to 5 (Higher number indicates greater poverty)
  Converted to Wealth Grade for better intuitive understanding
• Death Locations: Care Home, Hospice, Hospital, Home

Given the constraints of the dataset, we are unable to draw definitive conclusions; instead, we present intriguing patterns for readers to contemplate.

Rationale

Raise awareness about health and deprivation disparities.

• Who cares: People from all walks of life.
• Why care: The wealth gap profoundly affects daily life, and death is inevitable for all.
• What to do: Distribute data comics at a Christmas market.

Take home message

• Could deprivation significantly affect certain aspects of your health?
• Might deprivation limit your medical choices and potentially influence where you might pass away?

• Medium: A pocket-sized booklet, crafted by folding an A4 sheet into eight sections, featuring data comics.

• Plot: TODO
• Narrative: TODO
• Structure: 16 pages in total, printed on both sides of 8 sections, comprising: 2 cover pages + 2 for introduction and engagement + 4 for story development + 2 for the climax + 2 for conclusion + 2 for a call to action + 2 for advertisements(the horizontal long banner)

This project blends a Christmas story with data storytelling to highlight health disparities, focusing on engaging content creation and strategic distribution. Our upcoming steps involve:

• Refining the Storytelling: Ensuring that data is the central component of the comic, making it both informative and engaging.
• Testing Data Literacy: Presenting a prototype to a varied audience to gather feedback and insights.
• Improving Design: Selecting a color palette and font style that are more aligned with the theme while ensuring accessibility.
• Production and Distribution: Finish drawing and plan for the handing-out event.

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